BREAKING: Days After Houston, ICE Kills Again — This Time in Maine

A person is dead near Hill and Pool streets in Biddeford. ICE and DHS still haven't said a word.

WASHINGTON — Mary Hayes ran outside on Chapel Street when she heard the gunshots. All she could see was a foot.

“I saw it, I saw his foot,” she told the Portland Press Herald.

A person was killed Monday morning in a shooting involving an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer in Biddeford — the 11th fatal shooting tied to ICE or Border Patrol agents since President Trump’s second term began, according to Maine House Speaker Ryan Fecteau, D-Biddeford.

“A person was killed. ICE was involved. State Police and the Department of Public Safety are now on scene to gather details and would expect the FBI to investigate as well,” Fecteau said in a statement. “These are the details that I have at this time. I will provide further updates, as they are relayed to me.”

The shooting happened around 8 a.m. near the intersection of Hill and Pool streets. Pool Street was closed at Phillips Lane; a red crime-scene tent went up at the corner. Biddeford Police Chief JoAnne Fisk declined to answer questions when reporters reached her Monday morning. Neither ICE nor the Department of Homeland Security has commented.

Lucas Scott, 18, of Wells, told the Press Herald he was driving through the intersection when he saw unmarked vehicles and flashing lights. He said a driver put a car in drive and tried to hit the officer. “The agent then fired about four shots,” Scott said. “I just heard the popping, but I did see him draw his gun.”

None of that account has been confirmed by ICE, DHS or Maine State Police. The person killed has not been named.

The shooting lands in the middle of a Maine ICE surge that swept up nearly 200 people since January — only 11 with criminal convictions, by the administration’s own count — under an operation the agency named Catch of the Day. That surge was cut short after ICE agents fatally shot two people in Minneapolis. It also comes weeks after an ICE officer killed Lorenzo Salgado Araujo, a 52-year-old Houston homebuilder, in a shooting DHS called self-defense — a claim the family disputes and no video has settled.

Troy Jackson, a Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate in Maine, said Monday his “heart is with Biddeford – and with all Mainers.”

Hayes was still shaking when she spoke to a reporter.

“We don’t expect this to happen here,” she said. “What have we come to?”

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